leam
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But it's the first step to be an idiot...
So I'm reading the SAS Mental Endurance book ( http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&btob=Y&isbn=1585744425&itm=1 ) and thinking about how to incorporate a higher sense of purpose and team spirit. Feel free to abuse my ideas and come up with better ones.
1. Non-generic mission roles. Get rid of having "a" safety diver and each pair is both primary and safety. The first diver goes in and comes back with a minimum of 1000 PSI. The second diver goes in while the first is saftey. The safety always has access to a spare tank with regulators that can be used if someone gets trapped on the bottom. So the perception changes from "a safety diver" to "my safety diver". We are a team for the duration of that mission and we back each other up. rehab together, debrief together, and eat mexican food together.
2. No idiot behaviors. This is a tough one for us.
i. "I" and self-importance.
d. Defensiveness and inability to critically self-review.
i. "It's somebody else's job". Outward expression of laziness.
o. Omniscient; "I've been doing this for 20 hears, you can't teach me nuthin."
t. Territorial. Don't try to help improve my part; mind your own business!
3. Scenario based training. We need to do the basics like diving patterns but we also need to run operations from call-out to debrief. We've been blessed with no responses this year but there's the tendency to lax drill as a result. Running realistic scenarios should give us more sense of purpose and some "live fire" type drills to expose our weaknesses as a team.
4. Role based training. Instead of trying to have everyone do everything we're moving to specific roles based on NFPA 1670. We will do dive, swiftwater, and land search. Rope is not a role because it is key to each of the others. A person can follow the dive track even if they aren't a diver because we're using the "Awareness", "Operational", and "Technician" levels of skill. Thanks to Blades for the suggestion! A person can choose what roles they want to fill and at what levels they want to work and they will have an explicit list of skills to learn and duties to perform.
5. In all this I'm going to introduce the concept of a unifrom, professional bearing, and maturity. After a decade in the military I get nauseus when I see a bunch of over-weight rednecks in BDU pants who think they are special just by being on the "team". Nothing seperates us from the overweight rednecks in bdu pants on the street except the lack of Budweiser cases on the grass.
Any ideas on how to make this better?
ciao!
leam
So I'm reading the SAS Mental Endurance book ( http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&btob=Y&isbn=1585744425&itm=1 ) and thinking about how to incorporate a higher sense of purpose and team spirit. Feel free to abuse my ideas and come up with better ones.
1. Non-generic mission roles. Get rid of having "a" safety diver and each pair is both primary and safety. The first diver goes in and comes back with a minimum of 1000 PSI. The second diver goes in while the first is saftey. The safety always has access to a spare tank with regulators that can be used if someone gets trapped on the bottom. So the perception changes from "a safety diver" to "my safety diver". We are a team for the duration of that mission and we back each other up. rehab together, debrief together, and eat mexican food together.
2. No idiot behaviors. This is a tough one for us.
i. "I" and self-importance.
d. Defensiveness and inability to critically self-review.
i. "It's somebody else's job". Outward expression of laziness.
o. Omniscient; "I've been doing this for 20 hears, you can't teach me nuthin."
t. Territorial. Don't try to help improve my part; mind your own business!
3. Scenario based training. We need to do the basics like diving patterns but we also need to run operations from call-out to debrief. We've been blessed with no responses this year but there's the tendency to lax drill as a result. Running realistic scenarios should give us more sense of purpose and some "live fire" type drills to expose our weaknesses as a team.
4. Role based training. Instead of trying to have everyone do everything we're moving to specific roles based on NFPA 1670. We will do dive, swiftwater, and land search. Rope is not a role because it is key to each of the others. A person can follow the dive track even if they aren't a diver because we're using the "Awareness", "Operational", and "Technician" levels of skill. Thanks to Blades for the suggestion! A person can choose what roles they want to fill and at what levels they want to work and they will have an explicit list of skills to learn and duties to perform.
5. In all this I'm going to introduce the concept of a unifrom, professional bearing, and maturity. After a decade in the military I get nauseus when I see a bunch of over-weight rednecks in BDU pants who think they are special just by being on the "team". Nothing seperates us from the overweight rednecks in bdu pants on the street except the lack of Budweiser cases on the grass.
Any ideas on how to make this better?
ciao!
leam
